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Watch: Puppet Master 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon’s puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon’s puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches..
Plot: A Jewish puppet maker who’s discovered the secret to creating living puppets commits suicide to avoid capture by the Nazis and hides his beloved and harmless puppet children in a California hotel. Years later, a cult of magicians arrive at the hotel under the invitation of an ex-member who betrayed them all, only to find that he’s dead – and that the living puppets, under the influence of a new Puppet Master, have turned murderous!
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Reviews:

Inert first act, but decent start to the ongoing puppet-slasher series

RELEASED TO VIDEO IN 1989 and directed by David Schmoeller, “Puppet Master” (or “Puppetmaster”) takes place at a striking old hotel on the California coast where four psychics gather to meet a former colleague and his wife, the heir of the grand inn. However, their colleague has committed suicide and puppets animated by Egyptian sorcery are intent on killing them off one-by-one.

This was the first of a franchise that includes a dozen sequels (as of this writing), which is one more than the Friday the 13th franchise. While decidedly Grade B in quality, I liked the grand ol’ hotel setting, the cast, and the Ten Little Indians-like plot. Unfortunately, the first half hour feels lethargic and dull.

From there, the film’s decent enough with quality puppet effects. Irene Miracle is stunning as a psychic biyatch and Kathryn O’Reilly & Robin Frates ain’t no slouches on the feminine front, but the filmmakers fumble the ball as far as taking advantage of these resources. Paul Le Mat is genial as the main male protagonist with frightful hair while Jimmie F. Skaggs is formidable as the colleague gone mad.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 30 minutes and was shot in California (Riverside, Pasadena, etc.). WRITERS: Charles Band, Kenneth J. Hall, Schmoeller and J.S. Cardone.

GRADE: C+

_Puppet Master_ is the first of the Puppet Master series of movies.
It’s not the best, so if this is the first Puppet Master movie you see I’d continue on with the series as the sequels are actually much better than the original.

In this movie, we are introduced to the Puppet Master himself, Toulon. We don’t learn much about Toulon in this movie other than he created some living puppets and killed himself rather than being captured.

The bulk of the movie takes place years later when a group of new-age super friends (a psychic, a witch, a magician, etc.) go to a hotel where their other occult friend has recently died.
It turns out he was after the secrets of Toulon and _something happened_. Puppet carnage ensues.

The Puppet Master movies get much better after this.
The latest as of this writing is “Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich,” which is done by a different studio and stars Thomas Lennon.

All of the original Puppet Master movies are on a video streaming service by Full Moon Features, which produced them.

Thought It Would Rock, But Only Rocked Me To Sleep
Andre Toulon (William Hickey) was a “puppet master” in the 1930s, creating life from inanimate dolls with ancient Egyptian methods. But he hides the dolls when Nazis come looking for him. Flash forward to 1989, and a group of magicians and psychics meet in his old home where they find the dolls and find them just a wee bit violent and bloodthirsty. Also, the recently deceased homeowner might not quite be dead.

Here’s another film from my childhood that comes back to haunt me as an adult. Expecting this to be one of Full Moon’s better films, I watched it and found myself immensely bored, at one point almost falling asleep. Paul LeMat (Golden Globe winner) was an interesting character with interesting hair, but his acting was horrible. And Barbara Crampton shows up, but not nearly long enough (she has a cameo as a carnival attendant).

The first hour of this film drags, focusing way too much on back story and characters that are not important and are not interesting. The next fifteen minutes is a bit better. The final ten minutes is decent, but does not redeem the extreme boredom of the beginning. And to think there’s like eight or nine sequels to this picture! You know, I like Charles Band (the producer) and I think Ken Hall (the writer) is a great guy, but wow… this film was not half as good as I recalled it being. The number one reason: the puppets get the least screen time. Should I blame director David Schmoeller, whose previous work, “Crawlspace”, puts this film to shame?

Blade needs more screen time, and some of them — Jester, for example — seem to have no purpose being in the movie at all. Leech Woman was pretty good and rather disgusting, although I wonder how often her power is actually useful. Tunneler was cool, Pinhead was cool… but again… I needed a lot more of them on the screen. The humans were just not worth caring about. Sure, there’s an interesting sex scene… but that isn’t character development.

“No Strings Attached” featurette is seven minutes, with very brief interviews with David Schmoeller, Paul LeMat, Charles Band and puppet genius David Allen and his crew. It is not particularly revealing, though at seven minutes I guess one cannot expect much. Charlie Band’s 5-minute introduction is actually more informative, and you can never get enough of him saying “dude”. Also, as of 2010, the film is now available restored and remastered — though it does nothing to make the story better.

This film might best be left unwatched for those who want to keep the mystique of “Puppet Master” alive. Not that the film is awful, but it is not the amazing legend many have made it out to be. Richard Band’s cheesy score does not help. A remake would do wonders for this film, as long as they kept within the boundaries of the Full Moon feel. A bit tighter writing, but with comparable special effects, and this would have been a timeless film. Now it is just another memory of mine destroyed and spread throughout the countryside.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min), 1 hr 15 min (75 min) (cut) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director David Schmoeller
Writer Charles Band (story), Kenneth J. Hall (story), David Schmoeller (screenplay)
Actors Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle, Jimmie F. Skaggs
Country USA
Awards 1 nomination.
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Ultra Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (video release), 1.85 : 1 (re-release)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm